Why sexual health is still the hardest conversation in a Nepali clinic
Thirty years of consultations have taught me that the medicine is rarely the difficult part. Getting to the first honest sentence is.
लेख पढ्नुहोस्यौन चिकित्सा · काठमाडौं, नेपाल
Founder of the Nepal Institute of Human Sexuality and of Mata Manakamana Arogya Clinic. Physician, author, and former member of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal.
Dr. Subodh Kumar Pokharel
MBBS · M.Phil · DHSवरिष्ठ यौन स्वास्थ्य विशेषज्ञ

30+
Years in practice
०१भिडियो सङ्ग्रह
बिरामीले सबैभन्दा धेरै सोध्ने प्रश्नहरूमा छोटा कुराकानी — क्लिनिक आउन हिम्मत नपुगेकाहरूका लागि रेकर्ड गरिएका।
नयाँयो महिना 3 नयाँ भिडियो
Dr. Pokharel on the questions patients most often arrive with.
२०२६ अक्टोबर १२ मा प्रकाशित

A patient who cannot say the word will not describe the symptom. My first job is to make the room safe enough for the sentence.
०२डाक्टरको परिचय
Dr. Subodh Kumar Pokharel has spent more than three decades treating what Nepal has long found difficult to name. He is a Senior Sexual Health Specialist, the founder of Mata Manakamana Arogya Clinic and the Nepal Institute of Human Sexuality, and a former member of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal. He is also an author, poet, lyricist and filmmaker — work that has carried sexual health education far beyond the walls of a consulting room.
Qualifications
Founder & Chief Consultant
Mata Manakamana Arogya Clinic
Founder
Nepal Institute of Human Sexuality
Member, Constituent Assembly of Nepal
Election Commission of Nepal
०३प्रकाशित कृति
नेपालीमा तीन कृति — फोन वा ह्वाट्सएपबाट सिधै अर्डर गर्न सकिन्छ।
०४लेख
यौन स्वास्थ्य, जनशिक्षा र यो विषयलाई बोल्न सकिने बनाउने लामो प्रयासबारे टिप्पणी।
Thirty years of consultations have taught me that the medicine is rarely the difficult part. Getting to the first honest sentence is.
लेख पढ्नुहोस्A short list of the beliefs that cause the most unnecessary worry — and what the evidence actually says.
लेख पढ्नुहोस्Sitting in the Constituent Assembly changed how I understood the limits of clinical work.
लेख पढ्नुहोस्०५क्लिनिक भ्रमण
Putalisadak, Kathmandu
Consultations are by appointment. Please call ahead — walk-in slots are limited.
ओपीडी समय
गोप्य परामर्श
Consultations are private, unhurried and by appointment. Call the clinic and the staff will find you a time.